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arnie

Hi. Let's see if someone can help me here with the following formula since rarely we see formulas being discussed here :? My problem with it is drawing the trendlines from the beginning to the end of the selected input days. How can I tranform the SessHi and SessLo variables into recognizable Date f...

arnie

Hi. Is it possible to add a connect/disconnect button in MC for those times that we connect offline but then want to connect and update the database? It's rather odd that we need to close MC and open it again so we can change from offline to online mode and connect to our datafeed servers. Regards, ...

arnie

Did you spell the email address correctly?

Did you check the junk email box?

Did you check the deleted emails?

Did you try another email address?

arnie

Hi I have a registered version with a lifetime license ; I'm trying to download the gold version but it's not still possible , there are problems ? Best regards Massimo Hi Massimo Go HERE than you have Multicharts Official Release 5.0.2369.400 23 May 2009 , click in Download now and a second browse...

arnie

Regarding the market scanner, can't we limit the rows to the number os symbols we have? For example, I´m following the 500 S&P stocks. This means I have 4500 empty rows, making the scroll bar realy small. Is it possible for us to delete the unwanted/empty rows or market scanner recognize the number ...

arnie

Hi. Lets maintain all questions relating MC5.0 GOLD all together so all users can access them more easily. Let me start then with my questions: 1. Just copy/paste the entire 500 stocks of the S&P500 index to the Market Scanner and more than 2 hours have passed and I'm only at 255 stocks :? Why does ...

arnie

Dear Fernando,
We can't reproduce the issue. Is this reproducible on your side?

Hi Andrew.

I've printed a couple of formulas after the crash but until now I had no more problems.

Could this have been a simple computer glitch?

Regards.
Fernando

arnie

Hi.

I was working on some formulas and then decided do print them.

While formating some printer options, PLE 5 beta 6 crashed.

The image show sthe message tha PLE gave my before closing.

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

You can find the all the online tutorials HERE

The Funtions & Reserved Words Reference eBook can be find in the page linked above in HERE

regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi. There's another thing that annoys me a lot since I'm writing syntax errors one after another :oops: :P See the image attached. When we have a syntax error, PLE point us where the error is. So far so good. The annoying thing is that it only points where the error is, not making the cursor availab...

arnie

Hi

Have you tried highest(High,20)

You have also:

highest_a
highest_array
highestbar
highestFC

regards,
Fernando

arnie

as far as I know, the registration name and code are suitable for all MC versions, final and beta. just do what TJ told you or double click at the non-authorized button (yellow) at the bottom of MC and write your registration name and code that you received when you bought MC. That same button shoul...

arnie

Hey John.

Wouldn't be nice for the thread starter to have the power to delete messages like the above one

I hate spammers

Fernando

arnie

Hi. What about giving PLE the possibility of window detachment? When working on a second version of the same formula, it would be very useful to have both formulas displayed in detached windows, side by side, so we could compare both and knowing exactly what and where we are. OK, we can have two win...

arnie

Hi. Just finished restart my computer and when I opened MC I received the "warning" in the image attached. I didn't noticed any problem in MC close so I thought this was a strange "warning", but after reading it through I noticed this was a nice way to save all data that MC had collected during the ...

arnie

But if i'm not mistaken, you have access to the IP address of all that connects to the forum. Why not block their IP address? Isn't this forum closed to non MC costumers in terms of posting messages? You could also hire someone to clean the forum. Your member list is full of "so called users" with l...

arnie

Hi 2haerim. I've been asking that same question for a couple of weeks now. I've read that we could run the same MC license in 2 PC's at the same time, being one connect realtime and the other in offline mode, but I confess that I'm not being able to do that since the DRM versions came out. Even when...

arnie

Hi.

I'd like to warn all the users and tssuport that someone that call himself forum administration is sending private messages with a link to a Viagra webpage.

Is there a way to stop this kind of spam?

Regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi Marina.

I didn't know that this was a Windows "issue".

Thanks for the reply.

Regards.
Fernando

arnie

Thanks TJ. Although all indicators are now in my laptop, the display of them in the folders are different. I've created a couple of folders so I could manage them in a better way but strangely enought, when I opened PLE in my laptop, a couple of them went to the Indicator default folder instead of t...

arnie

I had another idea. Instead of having all studies (functions, indicators, signals) in folders in the navigator bar in PLE, what about create on the bottom of the navigator bar, where we have the studies and dictionary "panels", put in that zone those folders? I don't know about you but it's very pai...

arnie

Hi. I've just copy the .GDB files form my XP desktop (MC version5 beta6) into my Vista laptop (MC version5 beta5) so I could continue my work, but something is not right. In Vista, the folder where the database file is, is not the same as the XP. In Vista the files are in C:\ProgramData\TS Support\M...

arnie

Do you ever use Page Up and Page Down to scroll your charts? Hi Marina. Actually, I've never used page up and page down :shock: That's a new feature for me :oops: see, that's why it's so important to have a key shortcut list so we know them by heart, though, for that to happen we also need to have ...

arnie

Hi. Since my computer runs 24/7, when I'm away I lock it down basically for protection against my cleaning lady. That woman loves to clean everything, even each key of my keyboard :shock: Anyway, when I unlock the computer, MC is maximized only in one monitor :? I have MC maximized in 2 monitors and...

arnie

That's a good one TJ

arnie

What about 1 PC with 4 or even 8 monitors?

Yes, I'm sure that there are a couple of things that are difficult to code, but who knows, maybe one day you'll discover a way.

Regarding ES, well that bouce at 1:15 PM was generated precisely at 50% retracement of the days range.

arnie

Actually it is in MC 2.1.999.999. I just stumbled upon it. :oops: There is probably nothing documenting it. This is one of MC problems. They use TS's EL manuals when they should write their own since there are functions and keywords specific to MC. Also, there are situations where you see TS progra...

arnie

Another thing is you can right click on the function in your scripted study and it will at the very top of that menu allow you to open that function's script.

Isn't this a new feature?

I've never read about that option before

arnie

Here is one other consideration. Once you are done your system (your trading methods) you rarely change the studies or look at them. I am there now (I am about as good as I will ever get I figure). I look at my EL code maybe every 2 or 3 months and normally just to look something up. I think one ha...

arnie

I am not sure what is the best since each person may have their best method. However this work around may help someone somewhere out there. All my studies and functions start with "A_My_whatever". At least they are grouped and easy to find alphabetically up near the front from either the editor or ...

arnie

1. I like the idea of having folder management in the PowerEditor. over the years, I have accumulated many indicators/functions. It takes an additional 30 mins to install an upgrade now. LOL p.s. you can sort the indicators by clicking on the column heading. click on the name, and the indicators wi...

arnie

bar spacing without CTRL +- it's not bar spacing :P I use and abuse of CTRL +- One of the key shortcuts that needs to be added is the CTRL left/right arrows to scroll the chart to the left and to the right. If we click the left and right arrow we scroll the chart but only bar by bar.Needless to say ...

arnie

Is it possible you could make the installer automatically recompile all uncompiled code as part of the install process like TS? It would save some clicking after each install.

+1 vote

regards,
Fernando

arnie

Hi. I've just installed Beta 6 and I finally can backfill IQFeed data with an acceptable speed :) I'd like to propose a new way to manage our own studies. I've created a new folder in PLE to put all my own studies, but everytime I create a new one, it's saved in the Indicators folder instead of the ...

arnie

Hi. Couldn't those buttons be placed near the close button of each subchart? So imagine that you want to expand your subcharts. You would only need to click in one of the buttons to resize the window at a fixed % of the total chart as you want. So if you had 2 subcharts you would click on one of the...

arnie

Hi Andrew. Since the day I tested MC I was hooked. I finally had found the software I was looking for and better yet, with a 5 star costumer service. Where do we find an helpdesk that is able to resolve problems in realtime? Please allow me to give a special thanks to Marina and Sergee for their pro...

arnie

Hey Andrew, There's definately something wrong here because I've just reiniciated MC and though IQfeed client and QM are receiving data, my charts aren't :shock: :? I'll try to arrive sooner tomorrow to see if I can contact the helpdesk so they can see what is going on here. You should change the he...

arnie

OK. Lets see if that happens again at suitable hours. Actually it happened again last night. I had MC opened and when ES futures started to trade, nothing happened. Closed IQfeed client and reopened it, and again, no quotes. Then closed MC and IQfeed, reopened both, and only then I finally started t...

arnie

You guys need to create key shortcuts ASAP. For a simple cross call It's time consuming have to pick the mouse and point it to the cross button. For example, I'm always getting "killed" because everytime I want to create a new chart inside of a workspace I hit CTRL + N and instead of opening a new ...

arnie

I give up.

I always receive an undeliverable message.

This is what QM is sending...

arnie

Hey Andrew

I'm trying to send the logs but all mails are sent back saying that it didn't reach the recipient.

QM is sending to the following mail

support@tssupport.com

Is there any problems with your email servers?

arnie

Please send us your logs from QuoteManager.

I hope this are the ones

arnie

Hi Andrew. Can you check if beta 5 is fully compatible with the latest IQFeed client (4.5.0.3). Today, after restarting my computer and opened MC, it didn't start receiving any realtime data again. I then opened QuoteTracker to see if I was receiving any data at all and everything was working fine. ...

arnie

I've lost my internet connection a couple of hours ago and MC was open at the time. No warning was given by MC during the time I was without internet connection. Then the futures started to trade one hour ago and MC didn't start to collect real time data. I restarted it but had no luck. Then closed ...

arnie

... In your small world you have no comprehension of what others are doing and the effects... So why don't you just butt out.

J~

arnie

Important notice: We are deploying redundant DRM system. The DRM server will be down for a few hours and Beta 4 and Beta 5 will not be able to function. Thank you for understanding. Thank you for the warning Andrew. This way people will know what is happening. Actually, I had just installed beta 5 ...

arnie

Important notice: We are deploying redundant DRM system. The DRM server will be down for a few hours and Beta 4 and Beta 5 will not be able to function. Thank you for understanding. This is not a good system where if your server is, down redundent or not, our our programs won't function. J~ Don't s...

arnie

First, let me tell you that I've installed beta 5 in my laptop but I haven't open it yet (lack of time to study/test things offline) , so I'm still working with beta 2 (since no one complained about beta 5, I'll install it this weekend in my desktop). Isn't possible for the user to resize the Format...

arnie

Thank you. The beta 6 will be released this weekend. Already? You should give more time so the users can test Beta 5, and of course, to give more ideas on new possible feature for you to add in the next release. There are users that are thrilled to see new beta versions as fast as possible and than...

arnie

Hi. Is it possible to use the Alert function or any other function for that matter depending on the symbol in which the indicator is plotted? For example, I want to send an email with the values of a certain indicator at a certain time. That same indicator has different inputs for different equities...

arnie

Maybe the solution would be a digital key of some sort installed in the computer and every week or so, a new digital key would be produced by MC and sent to the servers for them to confirm their validity. This would have to be done in the same day for all users since it would be the only way to reco...

arnie

if the DRM server is being serviced, TSS should post a note to that effect. instead of letting some of its more sensitive users run around in distress. True, but as far as I know, only after version 5 beta 3 the DRM was implemented so the previous versions won't be affected by the problem. As Andre...

arnie

Fortunately I'm using beta 2 so I am still able to do my research for the week ahead today. I guess TSSupport will be introducing 24/7 support to resolve any issues when this goes out of beta. Exactly. Who needs to prepare their trades for next week, or not, should continue to work with previous ve...

arnie

I always had issues with black box "systems". Trading something that I don't know how they were built and just take for granted that they work, is something that I just can't deal with, yet. Please, don't misunderstand me, I'm not arguing with the value of these indicators. I've never tested them so...

arnie

Well, today is Sunday so the problem isn't that bad. Maybe they're testing the servers. Common, do you prefer they test the servers during week days, while markets are open around the world almost 24 hours a day? Let's give them a bit of space to work so they be able to give us the best service poss...

arnie

It's the first time I´ve heard about this indicators.

Are they the "holy grail" of trading?

How can we consider them, "black box", "grey box" or "white box" indicators?

Regards
Fernando

arnie

Yes.

No authorization in here also.

Maybe they are testing the servers or the impossible just happened, all 3 servers went down at the same time

Regards
Fernando

arnie

Actually no.

I'm using version 5 beta 2 and they trembling from time to time.

So far I haven't connected beta 4 to realtime data so I don't know if the problem was solved

arnie

Does anyone noticed that sometimes intraday charts starts to tremble :shock: The first time I noticed this it was damn cold in Portugal and I thought to myself, poor chart, is trembling with cold, but then again, maybe not :P Normaly, this trembling stops when we increase or decrease bar spacing. An...

arnie

Hi Something that I would like to see in MC would be a way to count calendar days. I was thinking of something similar to the Fibonacci Trend-based Time Lines tool, but with a twist :wink: We would select the tool, and then, selecting a bar with that same tool and moving the mouse forward, we would ...

arnie

Hi One thing that I think it would be a very useful "add on" for PLE it would be the ability to call keywords description directly from the editor window. If we want to have a complete description of a keyword, we need to select it from the navigator panel and read it in the output panel. Now, what ...

arnie

If this "most important issue" is getting in the way of profitable trading; see attached. Well, OK, maybe this can't be considered a "most important issue" but it is an annoying one. Yes, removing the status bar resolves the problem but the status bars is there to give important information, being ...

arnie

Hi.

Is it possible to stop the authorized sign to blink?

It's a bit distracting to have that blinking all the time.

Regards.
Fernando

arnie

Please see File->Send Image via e-mail. You can select a chart or a whole workspace. Yes, but that is sent away manually, meaning, someone must be in front of the computer and select ->Send Image. I'm talking about an automatic feature where we could select the chart/workspace and specify, for exam...

arnie

C'mon, iPhone?

That's a toy, not a working tool for the working guy.

Fernando

arnie

Hi. Maybe it skiped my eyes, but I couldn't find any mention in the manual regarding the possibility of MC sending emails with chart images. It would be interesting if MC could be capable of, by formulae, or not, sending emails with a selected chart. Imagine that you are out of the office and want t...

arnie

Please allow me to be the "devil advocate". Naturally that no MC user wants to be disconnected in the middle of a trading day. Moreover, in the middle of a trade, but lets face it, aren't we, traders, everyday, surrounded by probable data disruption, meaning, electricity, brokers, ISP, computers and...

arnie

Ma Bad

Sorry, about that. I wanted to say Beta 2.
I'm using Beta 2, NOT Beta 3.

I'm still psychologically affected with the Beta 3 experience

I'll test Beta 4 next weekend.

Thanks
Fernando

arnie

Hi Marina.

Something weird is happening.

Apparently, when I close MC and update my MS data, QM lose the associated MS folders

When I reopen MC I need to go to QM and associate, again, the MS folders.

Why is this happening?

This with MC 5 Beta 3.

Regards.
Fernando

arnie

Hi Marina.

Understood.

Thank you for your reply.

Regards
Fernando

arnie

Hi. I've been trying to access my metastock data files using MC in offline mode but every time I've tried it I've received a NO DATA warning. Does this mean that the only way to access this data is with MC in online mode and with the Download missing historical data selected? This restricts the trad...

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arnie

Has the new beta overcome the issue of a slow opening for MC if you close it down and try to re-open it again? I haven't upgraded because of the bugs a new beta always brings with it. Thank you. regards, Hi I cannot say since I've decided to reinstall Beta 2. So far, I've never had any type of prob...

arnie

Just to show you the problem that I'm having with forex daily charts. You can see how the EURUSD.FXCM and the EURUSD.COMP (IQFeed new premium forex service) have problem in different days. I'm using the default exchange session (EST time). Tried the 24/7 session but no such luck :( One question, are...

arnie

Hi geizer, From time to time when a new MC version is released it tends to calculate some functions differently than an older version. Let's say a function XYZ in ver2 returns value 3.2, then in ver3 the same function can return value 6.4 or yet a different value. You never know, unless you are a m...

arnie

I also receive that message yesterday.

Is that bug that Beta 3 have.

I reinstalled Beta 2 since I never had a single problem with it

arnie

Hi.

I'm getting wrong forex daily bars and I'm sure that the problem is with the exchange sessions default hours.

Can anyone tell me the correct time for forex markets or at least a session time that produce correct daily bars using IQFeed?

Thank you
Fernando

arnie

Just to close this issue.... Today I couldn't follow the markets so when I left home MC was basically frozen, not receiving any data. A couple of minutes ago, when I arrived MC was updating all charts and I had 2 warnings. The first said that I hadn't permition to use MC and therefore I couldn't rec...

arnie

I didn't know that we would need to compile the studies after a new installation. Well, now I'm certain that something wrong happened because when I woke up this morning none of my charts were updated during the overnight session :shock: I reload all charts and all overnight session, so far, was plo...

arnie

I've just downloaded and installed MC 5.0 Beta 3. First I had problems in open the program after instalation. I received an authorization error. I uninstalled it, installed it again, opened it, registered it since he didn't keep the registration data, closed it again, reopened it again and again rec...

arnie

Hi. Please check attached image. For all that have IQFeed service, when plotting ES intraday chart, do you have data for yesterday's trading day? I've reloaded the chart several times but I'm not being able to download that data. It's not an IQFeed problem since I'm able to see the missing data open...

arnie

Hi,
Is there a way to plot a UP or DN arrow from a condition on a chart when it happens ?
Thanks

Something like this:

Code: Select all

If Open>Open[1] And Open[1]>Open[2] Then

Value1=Arw_New(Date,Time,High,False); 

Plot1(Value1);

Regards

arnie

Hi arnie, Why do you run 24/7. Do you trade the overnight emini or have a big stack of backtesting prepared (or both). Maybe it would be worth betting a second license it it is backtesting. I agree, it would be nice to save the data (maybe at lunch when time is not an issue). Having said that they ...

arnie

Be careful. MC collects the data in a cache. The data is written to the database when you EXIT the program. if you experience a power outage, all the data in the cache are gone. MC has to re-download all the data you have collected since last reboot. :shock: Although re-download all data isn't a bi...

arnie

So what you're saying is that you have your MC (with 1 license) installed in two computers. Good. The only difference is that my trading computer runs 24/7 though I restart it every weekend to clean memory and also clean possible viruses, bad registry entries and all sort of problems that windows ca...

arnie

No. With a one machine license they mean "you are only suppose to run one copy of MC at a time" It allows you to run it on a different machine but you are not suppose to be running it on two machines at the same time. If you want to run it on two machines at the same time you have to ask them what ...

arnie

Thank you all. So, if MC saves all data when we close it, then, it's possible that in a few years we will have years of intraday data stored and ready to be analised in offline mode, correct? So, imagine that we only daytrade in two products, ES futures and EURUSD cross. We have intraday charts of t...

arnie

Hi. I'd like an information regarding the way MC saves data. Imagine that we call 20.000 5 minutes bars. Does MC saves all this data automaticaly so we can access to it in offline mode or do we must have QuoteManager opened? When MC is opened he's saving all data received from the opened charts, cor...

arnie

Hi Marina. Thank you for the reply. Let see if I'm able to arrange a proper time to contact the costumer services then. Based on what you said and as far as I could see, with intraday data the problem is non existent, meaning, using exchange & ECN's session in QuoteManager and then change to local t...

arnie

For providers who do provide daily data: I assume during market hours the latest daily bar is made of realtime intraday data. Is this latest daily bar (made of realtime data) replaced by the official daily data from the provider as soon as it is available? I don't know about that, what I know is th...

arnie

Hi. I'd like to propose a new way to add symbols into QuoteManager. What about to add lists of symbols through a .txt file as the one attached? This would be very useful if, for example, you have all the sectors components in .txt files and want to add all of them at once to QuoteManager instead of ...

arnie

Hi Marina. Thank you for your reply. Regarding Metastock files I was able to solve the problem. Don't ask me what happened but the first time I tried to add folders I was only able to add 1 folder, therefore my problem accessing data from other folders. So let me remove my previous comment when I sa...

arnie

Hello. This is my first message and I'm very happy to have finally bought MC. I come from 10 years of Metastock usage and althought I continue to use it everyday for my EOD signals (I have a complete trading system in it), when I decided a couple of months ago to get back to daytrade again, I decide...

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Help with Date format

[request] - connect/disconnect option

Re: problems to download gold version

MC 5.0 GOLD - Q&A and FAQ thread

PLE crashed

[request] - PLE syntax error - faster editing

[request] - PLE detach window

Nice way to save data

Spam from so called Forum Administration

database misplacement?

Minimize/Maximize issue

[request] - a better way for us to manage our own studies

possible problem between IQFeef client and MC?

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Re: Important notice

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[request] - Format Symbol Window

Alert function and symbol

trembling charts

[request] - new Gann tool

[request] - Power Language Editor "add on"

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Does MC send emails?

Metastock datafeed.dll possible problem

Forex exchange sessions and daily bars

MC 5.0 Beta 3

Problem with ES data on IQFeed

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Save data - question

Add new symbol

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